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Publisher : Editorial Ink
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Total Pages : 248 pages
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Download or read book written by and published by Editorial Ink. This book was released on with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Antonio de Lucas Martínez
Publisher : Univ de Castilla La Mancha
ISBN 13 : 9788484271284
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (712 download)
Download or read book La fábrica de armas de Toledo written by Antonio de Lucas Martínez and published by Univ de Castilla La Mancha. This book was released on 1999 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edición bilingüe español/inglés, con cuadros e ilustraciones a color. ÍNDICE: 1.- Antecedentes (Universidad y Ciudad; La otra ciudad histórica). 2.- Introducción. 3.- La Fábrica de Armas como campus de la UCLM (Fases previstas para la rehabilitación). 4.- Programa de rehabilitación y construcción ecológica. 5.- Programa energético. 6.- Programa de tratamiento integral del agua. 7.- Programa de gestión interna de residuos.
Author : Jens Andermann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351852515
Total Pages : 535 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book Latin American Cultural Studies: A Reader written by Jens Andermann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring twenty-five key essays from the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies (Traves/sia), this book surveys the most influential themes and concepts, as well as scouring some of the polemics and controversies, which have marked the field over the last quarter of a century since the Journal's foundation in 1992. Emerging at a moment of crisis of revolutionary narratives, and at the onset of neoliberal economics and emergent narcopolitics, the cultural studies impetus in Latin America was part of an attempted intellectual reconstruction of the (centre-) left in terms of civil society, and the articulation of social movements and agencies, thinking beyond the verticalist constructions from previous decades. This collection maps these developments from the now classical discussions of the ‘cultural turn’ to more recent responses to the challenges of biopolitics, affect theory, posthegemony and ecocriticism. It also addresses novel political constellations including resurgent national-popular or eco-nativist and indigenous agencies. Framed by a critical introduction from the editors, this volume is both a celebration of influential essays published over twenty five years of the Journal and a representative overview of the field in its multiple ramifications, entrenchments and exchanges.
Author : Ricardo Dussán Gordillo
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1304972119
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)
Download or read book ¿Quién era ese pendejo? written by Ricardo Dussán Gordillo and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-05-28 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Todo Santa Mamola dijo sí a la cita de Ernesto, quien hoy nos hará entrega de la sorpresa prometida durante el pasado debate electoral a la alcaldía; lamentablemente el orden del día tiene una modificación relacionada con "mi infortunio"... ¡Algo no previsto en las cuentas de nadie y menos en las del alcalde! Ya que es mucho desorden causado por la traída del muerto. Aquí todos quieren "verme la cara por última vez" ji, ji, ji, ... creo que Ernesto no debe estar muy colombiano, porque sin querer queriendo le dañé la fiesta. No hay que negar el hombre ¡Mandó toda la casa por la ventana! Empezando por la originalidad montada al obsequio... ¡Viene en papel regalo, con moñito rojo y tarjetón marcado!
Author : Will H. Corral
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441142452
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel written by Will H. Corral and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel provides an accessible introduction to an important World literature. While many of the authors covered-Aira, Bolaño, Castellanos Moya, Vásquez-are gaining an increasing readership in English and are frequently taught, there is sparse criticism in English beyond book reviews. This book provides the guidance necessary for a more sophisticated and contextualized understanding of these authors and their works. Underestimated or unfamiliar Spanish American novels and novelists are introduced through conceptually rigorous essays. Sections on each writer include: *the author's reception in their native country, Spanish America, and Spain *biographical history *a critical examination of their work, including key themes and conceptual concerns *translation history *scholarly reception The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel offers an authoritative guide to a rich and varied novelistic tradition. It covers all demographic areas, including United States Latino authors, in exploring the diversity of this literature and its major themes, such as exile, migration, and gender representation.
Author : Guillermina De Ferrari
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813926726
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)
Download or read book Vulnerable States written by Guillermina De Ferrari and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2012-06-29 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Martinican theorist Édouard Glissant, the twentieth century has been dominated in the Caribbean by a passion for the remembrance of colonial history. But while Glissant identifies this passion for memory in the thematizing of nature in Caribbean modernist life, scholar Guillermina De Ferrari claims it is the vulnerability of the human body that has become the trope to which Caribbean postmodernist authors largely appeal in their efforts to revise the discourse that has shaped postcolonial societies. In Vulnerable States: Bodies of Memory in Contemporary Caribbean Fiction, De Ferrari offers a comparative study of novels from across the Caribbean, arguing that vulnerability (symbolic and therefore political) should be seen as the true foundation of Caribbeanness. While most theories of the region have traditionally emphasized corporeality as a constitutive aspect of Caribbean societies, they assume its uniqueness is founded on race, itself understood either as a "fact" of the body or as the "ethnic" fusion of distinctive cultures of origin. In reconceptualizing corporeality as vulnerability, De Ferrari proposes an alternative view of Caribbeanness based on affect—that is, on an emotional disposition that results from the alienating role historical, medical, and anthropological notions of the body have traditionally played in determining how the region understands itself. While vulnerability thus addresses the role historically played by race in determining systems of social and political powerlessness, it also prefigures other ways in which Caribbeanness is currently negotiated at local and international levels, ranging from the stigmatization of the ill to the global fetishization of the region’s physical beauty, material degradation, and political stagnation.Positioned at the intersection of literary and anthropological study, Vulnerable States will appeal to Caribbeanists of the three major language areas of the region as well as to postcolonial scholars interested in issues of race, gender, and nation formation
Author : Aleksander W. Bauknecht
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144381606X
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Human Rights written by Aleksander W. Bauknecht and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10-02 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The material contained in this publication is the outcome of the 8th International Conference on Human Rights "Right to Knowledge and Information in Heterogenic Society", organized by the Faculty of Law and Administration in the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn (Poland), in cooperation with the Faculty of Law in the University of Bari (Italy), which took place on 30-31 May 2008 in Olsztyn. The selection of issues in no respect can be called accidental. The summit of the European Council in Lisbon in March 2000 created foundations for creating society based on knowledge that is conscious in gaining information and equal access to knowledge. Individual actions of countries should aim at creating a human-friendly "information society" which allows creation of new working places and developing information and telecommunication technologies. This broad spectrum of problems which were the subject of the conference, interests not only Polish researchers but also scientists from countries like Italy, Spain, Ukraine, the United States of America, United Kingdom, and South Korea. They represent various cultures, which implies differences of opinion on many issues related to human rights. Publications included in this collective work are the reflection of freedom to express thoughts on difficult topics, which are important for all though.
Author : Fabio Morosini
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108119050
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Reconceptualizing International Investment Law from the Global South written by Fabio Morosini and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how the current reform in investment regulation is part of a broader attempt to transform the international economic order. Countries in the North and South are currently rethinking how economic order should be constituted in order to advance their national interests and preferred economic orientation. While some countries in the North seek to create alternative institutional spaces in order to promote neoliberal policies more effectively, some countries in the South are increasingly skeptical of this version of economic order and are experimenting with alternative versions of legal ordering that do not always sit well with mainstream versions promoted by the North. While we recognize that there are differences in approaches to the investment regimes proposed by countries in the South, we identify commonalities that could function as the founding pillars of an alternative economic order.
Author : Olivier Dabène
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030269132
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Street Art and Democracy in Latin America written by Olivier Dabène and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores street art’s contributions to democracy in Latin America through a comparative study of five cities: Bogota (Colombia), São Paulo (Brazil), Valparaiso (Chile), Oaxaca (Mexico) and Havana (Cuba). The author argues that when artists invade public space for the sake of disseminating rage, claims or statements, they behave as urban citizens who try to raise public awareness, nurture public debates and hold authorities accountable. Street art also reveals how public space is governed. When local authorities try to contain, regulate or repress public space invasions, they can achieve their goals democratically if they dialogue with the artists and try to reach a consensus inspired by a conception of the city as a commons. Under specific conditions, the book argues, street level democracy and collaborative governance can overlap, prompting a democratization of democracy.
Author : Pedro Paulo Funari
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0306486520
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Global Archaeological Theory written by Pedro Paulo Funari and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-04-07 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeological theory has gone through a great upheaval in the last 50 years – from the processual theory, which wanted to make archaeology more "scientific" to post-processual theory, which understands that interpreting human behavior (even of past cultures) is a subjective study. This subjective approach incorporates a plurality of readings, thereby implying that different interpretations are always possible, allowing us to modify and change our ideas under the light of new information and/or interpretive frameworks. In this way, interpretations form a continuous flow of transformation and change, and thus archaeologists do not uncover a real past but rather construct a historical past or a narrative of the past. Post-processual theory also incorporates a conscious and explicit political interest on the past of the scholar and the subject. This includes fields and topics such as gender issues, ethnicity, class, landscapes, and consumption. This reflects a conscious attempt to also decentralize the discipline, from an imperialist point of view to an empowering one. Method and theory also means being politically aware and engaged to incorporate diverse critical approaches to improve understanding of the past and the present. This book focuses on the fundamental theoretical issues found in the discipline and thus both engages and represents the very rich plurality of the post-processual approach to archaeology. The book is divided into four sections: Issues in Archaeological Theory, Archaeological Theory and Method in Action, Space and Power in Material Culture, and Images as Material Discourse.
Author : Charlambos Kasimis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429819587
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)
Download or read book Local Responses to Global Integration written by Charlambos Kasimis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999, this volume features articles from 19 contributors on local responses to global integration, with a focus on rural areas and their adoption of new functions as both producers and consumers. It responds to a crisis in the regulatory framework and reconsiders globality, revealing new forms of production and consumption developing in diverse ways amongst these global rural communities. Authors from Australia, Bulgaria, Finland, Greece, Ireland, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, the United Kingdom and Venezuela are represented.
Author : Magdalena López
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030514986
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)
Download or read book New Perspectives on Hispanic Caribbean Studies written by Magdalena López and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-11 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the main contributions of Hispanic cultural products and practices today? This book is a collection of essays on new critical trends in Hispanic Caribbean thinking. It offers an update on the state of Hispanic Caribbean studies through the discussion of diverse theoretical perspectives around notions of affect, archipelagic thinking, deterritoriality, and queer experiences and subjectivities. These eccentric Caribbean and aquatic imaginaries move beyond those that are circumscribed by identity, nation, insularity, and the colonial epistemologies derived from these conceptions. Due to its cultural and historical specificities, the Hispanic Caribbean constitutes a focus of study crucial to re-thinking global dynamics today.
Author : C. Martijn van der Heide
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135125120
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)
Download or read book The Economic Value of Landscapes written by C. Martijn van der Heide and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to explore the avenue of landscape economics and provides the building blocks (from different scientific disciplines) for an economic analysis of landscapes. What exactly constitutes and determines the value of a landscape? It focuses on the value of landscapes in its broadest sense, thereby covering a variety of topics including stakeholder involvement in landscape design, landscape governance and landscape perceptions from different countries. Merely saying that landscapes have value or are important is not sufficient – not when resources are scarce and have alternative uses. Measuring and quantifying the economic value of changes in landscapes would help ensure that landscape management decisions are both (economically) rational and sound.
Author : Guillermina De Ferrari
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317813448
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Community and Culture in Post-Soviet Cuba written by Guillermina De Ferrari and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-14 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the globalization of Cuban culture, along with the bankruptcy of the state, partly modified the terms of intellectual engagement. However, no significant change took place at the political level. In Community and Culture in Post-Soviet Cuba, De Ferrari looks into the extraordinary survival of the Revolution by focusing on the personal, political and aesthetic social pacts that determined the configuration of the socialist state. Through close critical readings of a representative set of contemporary Cuban novels and works of visual art, this book argues that ethics and gender, rather than ideology, account for the intellectuals’ fidelity to the Revolution. Community and Culture does three things: it demonstrates that masculine sociality is the key to understanding the longevity of Cuba’s socialist regime; it examines the sociology of cultural administration of intellectual labor in Cuba; and it maps the emergent ethical and aesthetic paradigms that allow Cuban intellectuals to envision alternative forms of community and civil society.
Author : Andrea Colantonio
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351143549
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Urban Tourism and Development in the Socialist State written by Andrea Colantonio and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the collapse of the Soviet bloc in 1989, Fidel Castro announced the beginning of aSpecial Period for Cuba. During this time, the Cuban government has been obliged to look outward to other economies of the developed world, specifically targeting tourism as a mechanism for economic growth and development. This book examines the role played by international tourism in Cuba‘s institutional and economic restructuring and the country‘s reinsertion into the capitalist world economy. It provides the most comprehensive, in-depth analysis of the economic, social, environmental and political realities which have emerged in Cuba as a result of the redevelopment of urban tourism since the early 1990s. By analyzing the allocation of tourist resources and its impacts, the generation of tourism policy, and the politics of tourism development, it focuses on the political economy of urban tourism in Cuba and the balance of power between domestic and foreign stakeholders involved in the Cuban tourist industry.
Author : Linda Egan
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816521371
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (213 download)
Download or read book Carlos Monsiv‡is written by Linda Egan and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2001-09 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of MexicoÕs foremost social and political chroniclers and its most celebrated cultural critic, Carlos Monsiv‡is has read the pulse of his country over the past half century. The author of five collections of literary journalism pieces called cr—nicas, he is perhaps best known for his analytic and often satirical descriptions of Mexico CityÕs popular culture. This comprehensive study of Monsiv‡isÕs cr—nicas is the first book to offer an analysis of these works and to place Monsiv‡isÕs work within a theoretical framework that recognizes the importance of his vision of Mexican culture. Linda Egan examines his ideology in relation to theoretical postures in Latin America, the United States, and Europe to cast Monsiv‡is as both a heterodox pioneer and a mainstream spokesman. She then explores the poetics of the contemporary chronicle in Mexico, reviewing the genreÕs history and its relation to other narrative forms. Finally, she focuses on the canonical status of Monsiv‡isÕs work, devoting a chapter to each of his five principal collections. Egan argues that the five books that are the focus of her study tell a story of ever-renewing suspense: we cannot know Òthe endÓ until Monsiv‡is is through constructing his literary project. Despite this, she observes, his work between 1970 and 1995 documents important discoveries in his search for causes, effects, and deconstructions of historical obstacles to MexicoÕs passage into modernity. While anthropologists and historians continue to introduce new paradigms for the study of MexicoÕs cultural space, EganÕs book provides a reflexive twist by examining the work of one of the thinkers who first inspired such a critical movement. More than an appraisal of Monsiv‡is, it offers a valuable discussion of theoretical issues surrounding the study of the chronicle as it is currently practiced in Mexico. It balances theory and criticism to lend new insight into the ties between Mexican society, social conscience, and literature.
Author : Glen S. Close
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319990136
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)
Download or read book Female Corpses in Crime Fiction written by Glen S. Close and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-10 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the central significance of sexualized female corpses in modern and contemporary Hispanic and Anglophone crime fiction. Beginning with the foundational detective fictions of the nineteenth century, it draws from diverse subgenres to describe a transatlantic tradition of necropornography characterized by lascivious interest in female cadavers, dissection, morgues, femicide, and snuff movies. Hard-boiled and police procedural classics from the U.S. and the U.K. are juxtaposed with texts by established Spanish and Spanish American genre masters and with obscure works that prefigure the contemporary transmedial boom in corpse-centered fictions. The rhetoric and aesthetics of necropornographic crime fiction are related to those of popular crime journalism and forensic-science television dramas. This study argues that crime fiction has long fixated disproportionately on the corpses of beautiful young white women and continues to treat their deaths and autopsies as occasions for male visual pleasure, male subjective self-affirmation and male homosocial bonding.
